Embers

Name: Embers
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Josephine Greenland
ISBN: 9781664989269

Author: Josephine Greenland

Narrator: Laurie Catherine Winkel

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks

Published: 05/25/2021

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, Family Life, Small Town & Rural

Synopsis

Seventeen-year old Ellen never wanted a holiday. What is there to do in a mining town in the northernmost corner of Sweden, with no one but her brother Simon for company; a boy with Asperger’s who cares for nothing but collecting plants and solving crime mysteries?Nothing, that is, until the siblings stumble onto a horrifying crime scene that brings them knee-deep into a generations-long conflict between the townspeople and the native Sami. Simon’s deduction skills leads him to suspect people in the town, but when the police dismiss his findings, he decides to find the perpetrator himself.Ellen reluctantly helps, yet when she uncovers a link between the crime and the siblings’ own past, she becomes irrevocably involved. What started off as a tedious holiday becomes a dangerous journey through hatred, lies and self-discovery that makes Ellen question not only the relationship to her parents, but the nature of her own identity...

Reviews

Goodreads review by Muskan on May 13, 2021

Loved it ❤ “You are telling a part of truth, not all of it . You are not actually lying at all “ The book is interesting in a way that you get to know many different new things about different tribes and maybe you would believe in blood relations a little more than you actually do now . So the story i......more

Goodreads review by Megan on July 14, 2021

It was a great book and I enjoyed reading it.......more

Goodreads review by Shomeret on August 08, 2021

Embers is a first novel by Josephine Greenland. I downloaded it from Net Galley. It's a mystery that takes place amidst conflict between contemporary Swedes, and Sami reindeer herders who want to preserve their traditional way of life. The young protagonists of Embers are Ellen and Simon. It seeme......more

Goodreads review by Tina on May 16, 2021

Read in exchange for honest review (Net Galley) Deep family tensions run through this novel. Siblings, sent on a holiday to the past home of their Grandfather, discover a gruesome attack on a herd of reindeer that everyone seems to want to ignore. Deeply buried secrets, conflict and prejudices affec......more

Goodreads review by Emelie on June 01, 2021

I rate this 3.5, I believe this is a book I would have bought as a young teenager. The novel is labeled "age group 9-12" on the Swedish market, and I doubt I would have even glanced at this book before age 11-12. I believe it is more suited for the age group 12+, the protagonist is about to graduate......more